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Problem with \newcommand that mimics lstinline

I'm trying to replicate a part of a scanned book. Book is about programming (pure C). I need to use many commands with a same name but with different surrounding, for example, background color etc. ...
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Compilation fails with “! Missing \endcsname inserted.”

Hi I've got a strange problem. I've defined a new command to print Linux commands line in the document: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{listings} \newcommand{\shellcmd}[1] { ...
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listings package and latex3 variable

I'm trying to change a custom environment from a lot of optional parameters to a ;-separated list (using this answer as a template and writing its main functionality as a latex3 macro). The macro ...
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How can I create wrapper macro for lstinline?

Using \lstinline I can include inline code snippets in a paragraph. I would like to provide a macro that selects formatting, etc, for lstinline so I can just do, say, \codeinline{snippet}. I had ...
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Command to insert filename in caption of a listing

I would like to have a command to insert listings that contain the filename in the caption. This works well as long as there is no "_" etc. in the filename. I also tried the suggestion from a ...
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Define listings language using variable

I'm using the listings package to document excerpts from my programs. I have been creating new environments for the various programming languages and wondering whether there was a way to hack the ...
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lstlisting in a newenvironment

I have a problem with the lstlisting package. I want to define an \newenvironment with one obligatory parameter, which will be the caption name for the lstlisting. I will also have other lstlisting ...
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`advise` Environment in listings package

I was reading the documentation for the latex listings package and there are advises in it which look like so: I had a quick look in the source code for the documentation and it turns out that ...
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Getting incorrect underscores from macro in an lstlisting

I have a macro that I define as \newcommand{\versionPath}{5\textunderscore0\textunderscore7} to denote the word *5_0_7*, which I use in lstlisting's like this: \begin{lstlisting} ...
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Define a macro for inserting a \begin \end listings block

Can you define a macro that would take a listings code as a parameter and insert it inside a \begin{lstlistings} \end{lstlistings} block? My idea is something like this: ...
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\lstinline & \colorbox

Why the command below don't work? How can I fix it? \documentclass[11pt]{book} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{listings} \lstset{language=[LaTeX]Tex, ...
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\newcommand throws error: Runaway Argument? Paragraph ended before \lstKV@OptArg@@ was complete

I'm using the listings package in a document. In order to simplify the use of the \lstinline command I created a new command that looks like this: ...
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Problem defining a new command using lstinputlisting

I am trying to define a new command to easily insert SQL queries (from a file) on my document. I define it like that \newcommand{\sqlfile}[2]{\lstinputlisting[language=SQL, caption={#1}, ...
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A macro that behaves like a font-changing command (affects the rest of the current group)

Many LaTeX packages provide an interface to modify the typesetting of certain elements with the standard "parameterless" font commands, such as \bfseries, \sffamily or \color{red}. All of these ...
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lstinline loses braces when used as an argument to another command

I'm using the listings package, for the Java language (which, as all C-like languages, uses braces as a block delimiter). I intend to use \lstinline{...} as the second argument to a command for ...
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How to define macro that only makes argument substitution?

I am having some problems when I define a macro whose content has the lstlisting environment. For example, (assume ! is the escape char inside the lstlisting environment) \def\mycode#1{ ...
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Mysteriously fails to compile when I comment a line

I set up a github repo with a not-so minimal working environment (sorry for that). As the README at github says, uncommenting the following stupid line solves the problem and makes the ...
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Highlighting line ranges in a lstlisting: partial solution, but expansion issues

In my quest for a better solution for How to change appearance of a particular line when using \lstincludelisting, I came across the linebackground= option Martin Scharrer added to the listings ...
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Failsafe ways of using verbatim commands

All my ideas on how to do clever things with code examples and listings results further or later in 'Emergency Stop' errors. Let me briefly review what I am doing now and what I actually wanted to ...
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Why can lstlisting not be saved in a command?

This code fails with Emergency stop: \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{listings} \newcommand{\demo}{% \begin{lstlisting} foobar \end{lstlisting} } \begin{document} \demo \end{document} Why?
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Execute own command in listing

I create an own command like this \newcommand{\hostname}{this.is.my.hostname} Now I want to use this command in normal text (no problem) and inside of a listing Nun kann die Funktionsweise ...
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Any ideas why this \newcommand{\n}{\lstinline|\n|} macro doesn't work?

So I created a new macro \newcommand{\n}{\lstinline|\n|} but for some reason when I use it, all I get is bold 'n' letter and not a nice \n. Any ideas?
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Passing listing-environment as option to command

I have a simple command which takes one argument. Now I want to pass a small listing-environment to the command. Here is the code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{listings} \begin{document} ...
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ignorespace and unskip in verbatim/listings?

I am writing a \bashDemo macro that will (a) execute its argument in a shell, e.g., bash, script, and (b) display the argument in a listings. So, \bashDemo ls -ls > myfiles \END will both run ls ...